Seal ring protection piece used for puncture outfit, end seal assembly and puncture outfit

ABSTRACT

A sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar of the present invention includes a positioning skirt, a support piece and a curved protection sheet. An upper end of the support piece is connected to an inner side of the positioning skirt, and a lower end of the support piece is connected to an upper end of the curved protection sheet. The curved protection sheet is of a curved and asymmetrical sheet-like structure, forming an easily deformable region and a protection region along two sides of a center line and its extension line of the positioning skirt separately. A left side and a right side of the curved protection sheet have different curvatures. The design of different curvatures of the left and right sides reduces resistance forces when various special-shaped instruments are inserted and removed. An end sealing assembly and the trocar of the present invention include the sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar of the present invention, capable of not only ensuring that a funnel-shaped sealing ring is not punctured by a surgical instrument in a surgical process, thereby ensuring a good sealing performance, but also reducing a moving resistance force, and particularly reducing a resistance force when various special-shaped surgical instruments are inserted and removed.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to a surgical instrument, and inparticular, to a sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar, an endsealing assembly and a trocar used in a laparoscopic surgery.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Laparoscopic surgeries have been more widely applied. In order to avoidiatrogenic infection, consumption of disposable trocars (Trocar) used inlaparoscopic surgeries is increasingly greater. To ensure a dynamicsealing of the trocar in a process that a surgical instrument isinserted and removed frequently is a key to ensure smooth operating of asurgery. Further, surgical instruments of different shapes may be usedduring the surgery. Therefore, the trocar further needs to be applicableto the surgical instruments of different shapes to facilitate insertionand removal of the instruments. In addition, a low resistance forceneeds to be maintained in the process of the insertion and removal ofthe instruments, so that a smooth operation of the instruments isguaranteed.

In a prior art, a universal radical sealing ring is a funnel-shapedsealing ring. In order to ensure that the sealing ring is not puncturedby a surgical instrument in a long-term surgical process to cause aleakage, usually a sealing ring protection sheet is mounted on an upperportion of the funnel-shaped sealing ring, so that an instrument movesinwardly through the radial sealing ring along a surface of theprotection sheet when the instrument is inserted in and removed from thetrocar. A design of the sealing ring protection sheet, a thickness ofthe sealing ring can be reduced as much as possible while a sealingperformance is kept, so that a resistance force of the sealing ringagainst insertion and removal of the instrument is reduced. However, thesealing ring protection sheet increases a moving resistance force on theinsertion and removal of the instrument, vice versa. Particularly, for aspecial-shaped surgical instrument, such as a 7-shaped plier, or asurgical instrument with a raised step or a recess, the protection sheetof the prior art may be embedded in the raised step or the recess,creating a relatively great resistance force when the surgicalinstrument is inserted or removed. Therefore, the existing sealing ringprotection sheet needs to be improved, to further reduce the movingresistance force of the protection sheet on the insertion and removal ofthe instrument while providing sufficient protection for the sealingring.

SUMMARY

A sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar of the present invention ischaracterized in that: the sealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocarincludes a positioning skirt 201, a support piece 202 and a curvedprotection sheet 203;

A. the positioning skirt 201 is of a sheet-like structure, a positioninghole 201-1 being provided in the positioning skirt 201 and an inner sideof the positioning skirt 201 being connected to an upper end of thesupport piece 202;

B. the support piece 202 is of a sheet-like structure, the upper end ofthe support piece 202 being connected to the inner side of thepositioning skirt 201 and a lower end of the support piece 202 beingconnected to an upper end of the curved protection sheet 203; and

C. the curved protection sheet 203 is of a curved and asymmetricalsheet-like structure, including a right bevel edge 203-1, a bottom edge203-2, a left bevel edge 203-3, an upper edge 203-4 and a transition arc203-23, the right bevel edge 203-1 and the left bevel edge 203-3 beingat two sides of the bottom edge 203-2, the curved protection sheet 203being suspended on the support piece 202, and the upper edge 203-4 ofthe curved protection sheet 203 being connected to a lower end of thesupport piece 202.

An included angle α between the curved protection sheet 203 and thesupport piece 202 is greater than or equal to 90°, usually between 90°and 170°.

An included angle β between the right bevel edge 203-1 and the bottomedge 203-2 is between 70° and 90°.

The right bevel edge 203-1 and the left bevel edge 203-3 areasymmetrically distributed along a center line and its extension line203-0 of the positioning skirt 201.

A furthest distance D1 between the right bevel edge 203-1 and the centerline and its extension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201 is lessthan a furthest distance D2 between the left bevel edge 203-3 and thecenter line and its extension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201.

The curved protection sheet 203 of the sealing ring protection sheet 2for a trocar is disposed with an easily deformable region R with arelatively weak deformation strength and a protection region Q with arelatively strong deformation strength, and a deformation resistanceforce of the easily deformable region R is less than a deformationresistance force of the protection region Q.

The easily deformable region R is disposed on a right side of the curvedprotection sheet 203 of the sealing ring protection sheet 2 for atrocar, and the protection region Q is disposed on a left side of thecurved protection sheet 203 of the sealing ring protection sheet 2.

A thickness of the easily deformable region R is less than a thicknessof the protection region Q. Because the thickness of the easilydeformable region R is less than that of the protection region Q, whenan external force is applied, the easily deformable region R may berapidly deformed prior to the protection region Q and retreat backwards,so that a moving resistance force on an instrument applied by thesealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar is reduced. The protectionregion Q can still well protect the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5, so asto avoid a leakage caused by that the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 ispunctured.

Because the curved protection sheet 203 adopts a curved and asymmetricalsheet-like structure, and is divided along the center line and itsextension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201, the curved protectionsheet 203 may form the easily deformable region R and the protectionregion Q separately on two sides of the center line and its extensionline 203-0. According to description of the accompanying drawings ofthis application, a right side portion of the curved protection sheet203 is the easily deformable region R, and a left side of the curvedprotection sheet 203 is the protection region Q. When a surgicalinstrument is inserted and removed, the region R is rapidly deformedunder a force to rapidly expand a surgical instrument passage 9, andreduce a resistance force when the surgical instrument goes through thesealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar. After the region Q isslightly deformed, the region Q is still well fitted to thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5, so as to well protect the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5. By the design of the asymmetrical sheet-like structureof the curved protection sheet 203, not only the surgical instrumentpassage 9 can be rapidly opened to reduce the resistance force when thesurgical instrument goes through, but also that the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5 is well protected, to ensure that the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5 is not easy to be punctured by the surgical instrument ina surgical process, thereby well meeting requirements of a protectionfunction and a low moving resistance force on the sealing ringprotection sheet 2 for a trocar.

A funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 is formed by alternatelystacking four or more sealing ring protection sheets 2 for the trocar.

Further, the funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 is formed byalternately stacking eight sealing ring protection sheets 2 for thetrocar at 45°. By alternately stacking the eight sealing ring protectionsheets 2 for the trocar at 45°, a symmetrically distributedfunnel-shaped structure with a good fitting effect may be well formed onan upper portion of the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5. By such thestructure, when the surgical instrument goes through, an area of contactbetween the surgical instrument and the sealing ring 5 is reduced asmuch as possible due to the funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21formed by alternately stacking the eight sealing ring protection sheets2, and therefore a frictional resistance force of a motion of theinstrument is reduced as much as possible while a sealing performance isguaranteed. This funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 formed bythe eight sealing ring protection sheets 2 is an optimal structureobtained through optimization.

A curvature of a left side portion of the curved protection sheet 203 isdifferent from a curvature of a right side portion of the curvedprotection sheet 203.

Further, the curvature of the left side of the curved protection sheet203 is less than the curvature of the right side of the curvedprotection sheet 203.

Because a radius of curvature of the right side of the curved protectionsheet 203 is less than a radius of curvature of the left side of thecurved protection sheet 203, that is, the curvature of the right side ofthe curved protection sheet 203 is greater than the curvature of theleft side of the curved protection sheet 203, when a surgicalinstrument, especially, a special-shaped surgical instrument such as a7-shaped plier or a surgical instrument with a raised step or a recessgoes through, since the radius of curvature of the right side issmaller, the region R can be conveniently overturned during removal ofthe special-shaped surgical instrument due to the fact that the region Ron the right side of the curved protection sheet 203 is small in adeformation resistance force, small in the radius of curvature and largein the curvature, thereby facilitating the removal of the special-shapedinstrument and reducing a moving resistance force when thespecial-shaped instrument is removed, so that the sealing ringprotection sheet 2 for a trocar is not apt to be clamped at aspecial-shaped part, such as a raised step or a recess and that asmoothness of insertion and removal of various special-shapedinstruments is greatly improved.

An upper edge 203-4 of the curved protection sheet 203 includes aright-side upper edge 203-41, a left-side upper edge 203-42; and theright-side upper edge 203-41 is lower than the left-side upper edge203-42. Therefore, when the surgical instrument goes through, theleft-side upper edge 203-42 may not be deformed when a force is appliedbefore the surgical instrument arrives at the right-side upper edge203-41. When the surgical instrument arrives at the right-side upperedge 203-41, the region R on the right side of the curved protectionsheet 203 is deformed rapidly, the region Q on the left side of thecurved protection sheet 203 is deformed slightly, the surgicalinstrument passage 9 expands rapidly, and the surgical instrument entersthe funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 after going through the sealing ringprotection sheet 2 for a trocar. The right-side upper edge 203-41 islower than the left-side upper edge 203-42, ensuring that the region Ron the right side of the curved protection sheet 203 is deformed priorto the region Q on the left side of the curved protection sheet 203 whenthe surgical instrument goes through, so that the moving resistanceforce generated when the surgical instrument goes through is reduced.

The positioning skirt 201 is perpendicular to the support piece 202.

An end sealing assembly of the present invention includes the sealingring protection sheet 2 for a trocar.

The end sealing assembly 20 comprises an upper pressing plate 1, aprotection sheet 2, a corrugation sealing ring 3, a positioning seat 4,a funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 and a lower pressing plate 6; eightprotection sheets 2 are mounted on positioning posts 1-1 of the upperpressing plate 1 through positioning holes 201-1, so that for twoadjacent protection sheets 2, a right side 203-1 of the curvedprotection sheet 203 always presses a left side 203-3 of a curvedprotection sheet 203 of the adjacent protection sheet 2, the right side203-1 of the curved protection sheet 203 is always in an upper layer,and the left side 203-3 of the curved protection sheet 203 is always ina lower layer, to thus form a circular funnel-shaped protection sheetassembly 21 by alternately stacking the protection sheets in thismanner; positioning holes 3-1 of the corrugation sealing ring 3 aresleeved on the positioning posts 1-1 of the upper pressing plate 1, andthe circular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 is disposedbetween the corrugation sealing ring 3 and the upper pressing plate 1;the positioning seat 4 is provided with upper positioning holes 4-1 andlower positioning holes 4-2, the positioning posts 1-1 of the upperpressing plate 1 are embedded in the upper positioning holes 4-1 of thepositioning seat 4, and the protection sheets 2 and the corrugationsealing ring 3 are sequentially disposed between the upper pressingplate 1 and the positioning seat 4; and the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5is provided with positioning holes 5-1, the lower pressing plate 6 isdisposed with positioning posts 6-1, the positioning posts 6-1 of thelower pressing plate 6 are embedded in the lower positioning holes 4-2of the positioning seat 4 through the positioning holes 5-1 of thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5, and the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 isdisposed between the lower pressing plate 6 and the positioning seat 4.

Because the circular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 isadopted, the end sealing assembly 20 not only ensures that thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5 is not punctured by the surgical instrumentin a surgical process, but also reduces a moving resistance force,thereby well ensuring a moving smoothness of the surgical instrument.

The trocar of the present invention includes the sealing ring protectionsheet 2 for a trocar.

Further, the trocar 29 includes the end sealing assembly 20.

The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar of the present inventionincludes a positioning skirt 201, a support piece 202 and a curvedprotection sheet 203. An upper end of the support piece 202 is connectedto an inner side of the positioning skirt 201, and a lower end of thesupport piece 202 is connected to an upper end of the curved protectionsheet 203. The curved protection sheet 203 is of a curved andasymmetrical sheet-like structure, and along left and right sides of thecenter line and its extension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201,the easily deformable region R and the protection region Q are formedseparately. When a surgical instrument goes through, the region R israpidly deformed to rapidly expand a surgical instrument passage 9, andreduce a resistance force generated when the surgical instrument goesthrough. The region Q is only slightly deformed, and still well protectthe funnel-shaped sealing ring 5. The left and right sides of the curvedprotection sheet 203 have different curvatures. A design of differentcurvatures of the left side and the right side reduces a movingresistance force generated during insertion and removal of variousspecial-shaped instruments. The trocar including the sealing ringprotection sheet for a trocar of the present invention is capable of notonly ensuring that the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 is not punctured bya surgical instrument in a surgical process to ensure a good sealingperformance, but also reducing a moving resistance force to ensure amoving smoothness of the surgical instrument.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The aforementioned features and advantages of the invention as well asadditional features and advantages thereof will be more clearlyunderstood hereinafter as a result of a detailed description ofpreferred embodiments when taken in conjunction with the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic three-dimensional structural diagram of a sealingring protection sheet for a trocar according to the present invention;

FIG. 1-1 is an A-A cutaway view of FIG. 1;

FIG. 2 is a front view of a sealing ring protection sheet for a trocaraccording to the present invention;

FIG. 2-1 is a top view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 2-2 is a bottom view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 2-3 is a side view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 2-4 is a side view of FIG. 2;

FIG. 3 depicts a protection sheet assembly composed of 8 sealing ringprotection sheets for a trocar according to the present invention;

FIG. 3-1 is an exploded view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 3-2 is a bottom view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 3-3 is an exploded view of FIG. 3-2;

FIG. 3-4 is a front view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 3-5 is a B-B cutaway view of FIG. 3;

FIG. 4 is a top view of an end sealing assembly according to the presentinvention;

FIG. 4-1 is a front view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 4-2 is a bottom view of FIG. 4-1;

FIG. 4-3 is a top-view schematic three-dimensional structural diagram ofFIG. 4-1;

FIG. 4-4 is a bottom-view schematic three-dimensional structural diagramof FIG. 4-1;

FIG. 4-5 is a C-C cutaway view of FIG. 4;

FIG. 4-6 is a top-view exploded view of FIG. 4-1;

FIG. 4-7 is a bottom-view exploded view of FIG. 4-1; and

FIG. 5 is schematic structural diagram of a trocar according to thepresent invention.

In the foregoing accompanying drawings:

1 is an upper pressing plate, 2 is a sealing ring protection sheet for atrocar, 3 is a corrugation sealing ring, 4 is a positioning seat, 5 is afunnel-shaped sealing ring, 6 is a lower pressing plate, 9 is a surgicalinstrument passage, 20 is an end sealing assembly, 21 is a protectionsheet assembly, and 29 is a trocar.

On the sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar:

201 is a positioning skirt, 202 is a support piece, and 203 is a curvedprotection sheet.

201-1 is a positioning hole.

203-0 is a center line and its extension line of the positioning skirt,203-1 is a right bevel edge, 203-2 is a bottom edge, 203-3 is a leftbevel edge, 203-4 is an upper edge, and 203-23 is a transition arc.

203-41 is a right-side upper edge of the upper edge of the curvedprotection sheet, and 203-42 is a left-side upper edge of the upper edgeof the curved protection sheet.

A region R is an easily deformable region of the curved protectionsheet, and a region Q is a protection region of the curved protectionsheet.

α is an included angle between the curved protection sheet and thesupport piece, β is an included angle between the right bevel edge andthe bottom edge, D1 is a furthest distance between the right bevel edgeand the center line and its extension line of the positioning skirt, andD2 is a furthest distance between the left bevel edge and the centerline and its extension line of the positioning skirt.

On the end sealing assembly:

1-1 is a positioning post of the upper pressing plate, 3-1 is apositioning hole of the corrugation sealing ring, 4-1 is an upperpositioning hole of the positioning seat, 4-2 is a lower positioninghole of the positioning seat, 5-1 is a positioning hole on thefunnel-shaped sealing ring, and 6-1 is a positioning post on the lowerpressing plate.

On the trocar:

100 is a sheath, and 200 is a penetration rod; 101 is an end cover, and102 is a sheath assembly; 101-1 is an upper case, and 101-2 is a lowercase.

Like reference numerals refer to corresponding parts throughout theseveral views of the drawings.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments, examples of whichare illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In the following detaileddescription, numerous specific details are set forth in order to providea thorough understanding of the subject matter presented herein. But itwill be apparent to one skilled in the art that the subject matter maybe practiced without these specific details. In other instances,well-known methods, procedures, components, and circuits have not beendescribed in detail so as not to unnecessarily obscure aspects of theembodiments.

Embodiment 1: A Sealing Ring Protection Sheet for a Trocar of thePresent Invention

Refer to FIG. 1 to FIG. 3-5, in this embodiment, a sealing ringprotection sheet 2 for a trocar includes a positioning skirt 201, asupport piece 202 and a curved protection sheet 203.

The positioning skirt 201 is a sheet-like structure, and a positioninghole 201-1 is provided in the positioning skirt 201. An inner side ofthe positioning skirt 201 is connected to an upper end of the supportpiece 202. The positioning skirt 201 is perpendicular to the supportpiece 202.

The support piece 202 is of a sheet-like structure, the upper end of thesupport piece 202 being connected to the inner side of the positioningskirt 201 and a lower end of the support piece 202 being connected to anupper end of the curved protection sheet 203.

The curved protection sheet 203 is of a curved and asymmetricalsheet-like structure, including a right bevel edge 203-1, a bottom edge203-2, a left bevel edge 203-3, an upper edge 203-4 and a transition arc203-23. The right bevel edge 203-1 and the left bevel edge 203-3 are attwo sides of the bottom edge 203-2, the curved protection sheet 203 issuspended on the support piece 202, and the upper edge 203-4 of thecurved protection sheet 203 is connected to the lower end of the supportpiece 202.

An included angle α between the curved protection sheet 203 and thesupport piece 202 is greater than 90°. In this embodiment, the includedangle α is between 120° and 170°.

An included angle β between the right bevel edge 203-1 and the bottomedge 203-2 is between 70° and 90°.

The right bevel edge 203-1 and the left bevel edge 203-3 areasymmetrically distributed along a center line and its extension line203-0 of the positioning skirt 201.

A furthest distance D1 between the right bevel edge 203-1 and the centerline and its extension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201 is lessthan a furthest distance D2 between the left bevel edge 203-3 and thecenter line and its extension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201.

The curved protection sheet 203 of the sealing ring protection sheet 2for a trocar is disposed with an easily deformable region R with arelatively weak deformation strength and a protection region Q with arelatively strong deformation strength, and a deformation resistanceforce of the easily deformable region R is less than a deformationresistance force of the protection region Q.

The easily deformable region R is disposed on a right side of the curvedprotection sheet 203 of the sealing ring protection sheet 2 for atrocar, and the protection region Q is disposed on a left side of thecurved protection sheet 203 of the sealing ring protection sheet 2.

A thickness of the easily deformable region R is less than a thicknessof the protection region Q. Because the thickness of the easilydeformable region R is less than that of the protection region Q, whenan external force is applied, the easily deformable region R may berapidly deformed prior to the protection region Q, and retreatbackwards, so that a moving resistance force on an instrument applied bythe sealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar is reduced. Theprotection region Q can still well protect the funnel-shaped sealingring 5, so as to avoid a leakage caused by that the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5 is punctured.

Because the curved protection sheet 203 adopts a curved and asymmetricalsheet-like structure, and is divided along the center line and itsextension line 203-0 of the positioning skirt 201, the curved protectionsheet 203 may form the easily deformable region R and the protectionregion Q separately on two sides of the center line and its extensionline 203-0. Refer to FIG. 1 and FIG. 1-1, a right side portion of thecurved protection sheet 203 is the easily deformable region R, and aleft side of the curved protection sheet 203 is the protection region Q.When a surgical instrument is inserted and removed, the region R israpidly deformed under a force to rapidly expand a surgical instrumentpassage 9, and reduce a resistance force when the surgical instrumentgoes through the sealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar. After theregion Q is slightly deformed, the region Q is still well fitted to thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5, so as to well protect the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5. By the design of the asymmetrical sheet-like structureof the curved protection sheet 203, not only the surgical instrumentpassage 9 can be rapidly opened to reduce the resistance force when thesurgical instrument goes through, but also that the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5 is well protected, to ensure that the funnel-shapedsealing ring 5 is not easy to be punctured by the surgical instrument ina surgical process, thereby well meeting requirements of a protectionfunction and a low moving resistance force on the sealing ringprotection sheet 2 for a trocar.

In this embodiment, the funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 isformed by alternately stacking eight sealing ring protection sheets 2for the trocar at 45°. Refer to FIG. 3 to FIG. 3-5. By alternatelystacking the eight sealing ring protection sheets 2 for the trocar at45°, a symmetrically distributed funnel-shaped structure with a goodfitting effect may be well formed on an upper portion of thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5. By such the structure, when the surgicalinstrument goes through, an area of contact between the surgicalinstrument and the sealing ring 5 is reduced as much as possible due tothe funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 formed by alternatelystacking the eight sealing ring protection sheets 2, and therefore africtional resistance force of a motion of the instrument is reduced asmuch as possible while a sealing performance is guaranteed. Thisfunnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 formed by the eight sealingring protection sheets 2 is an optimal structure obtained throughoptimization.

A curvature of a left side portion of the curved protection sheet 203 isdifferent from a curvature of a right side portion of the curvedprotection sheet 203.

Further, the curvature of the left side of the curved protection sheet203 is less than the curvature of the right side of the curvedprotection sheet 203.

In this embodiment, a radius of curvature of the right side of thecurved protection sheet 203 is 20 mm, a radius of curvature of the leftside of the curved protection sheet 203 is 25 mm, and the radius ofcurvature of the right side of the curved protection sheet 203 is lessthan the radius of curvature of the left side of the curved protectionsheet 203. That is, in this embodiment, the curvature of the right sideof the curved protection sheet 203 is greater than the curvature of theleft side of the curved protection sheet 203. Because a radius ofcurvature of the right side of the curved protection sheet 203 is lessthan a radius of curvature of the left side of the curved protectionsheet 203, when a surgical instrument, especially, a special-shapedsurgical instrument such as a 7-shaped plier or a surgical instrumentwith a raised step or a recess goes through, since the radius ofcurvature of the right side is smaller, the region R can be convenientlyoverturned during removal of the special-shaped surgical instrument dueto the fact that the region R on the right side of the curved protectionsheet 203 is small in a deformation resistance force, small in theradius of curvature and large in the curvature, thereby facilitating theremoval of the special-shaped instrument and reducing a movingresistance force when the special-shaped instrument is removed, so thatthe sealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar is not apt to beclamped at a special-shaped part, such as a raised step or a recess andthat a smoothness of insertion and removal of various special-shapedinstruments is greatly improved.

An upper edge 203-4 of the curved protection sheet 203 includes aright-side upper edge 203-41, a left-side upper edge 203-42; and theright-side upper edge 203-41 is lower than the left-side upper edge203-42. Therefore, when the surgical instrument goes through, theleft-side upper edge 203-42 may not be deformed when a force is appliedbefore the surgical instrument arrives at the right-side upper edge203-41. When the surgical instrument arrives at the right-side upperedge 203-41, the region R on the right side of the curved protectionsheet 203 is deformed rapidly, the region Q on the left side of thecurved protection sheet 203 is deformed slightly, the surgicalinstrument passage 9 expands rapidly, and the surgical instrument entersthe funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 after going through the sealing ringprotection sheet 2 for a trocar. The right-side upper edge 203-41 islower than the left-side upper edge 203-42, when the surgical instrumentgoes through, ensuring that the region R on the right side of the curvedprotection sheet 203 is deformed before the region Q on the left side ofthe curved protection sheet 203, so that the moving resistance force isreduced when the surgical instrument goes through.

An asymmetrical structural design of the curved protection sheet 203 notonly ensures that the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 is not punctured bythe surgical instrument in a surgical process, but also reduces a movingresistance force, thereby well ensuring a moving smoothness of thesurgical instrument.

Embodiment 2: An End Sealing Assembly of the Present Invention

Refer to FIG. 4 to FIG. 4-7, an end sealing assembly of the presentinvention includes the sealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar ofEmbodiment 1, and a circular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21composed of the sealing ring protection sheets 2 for a trocar.

The end sealing assembly 20 includes an upper pressing plate 1,protection sheets 2, a corrugation sealing ring 3, a positioning seat 4,a funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 and a lower pressing plate 6. Refer toFIG. 4-6 and FIG. 4-7.

Eight protection sheets 2 are mounted on positioning posts 1-1 of theupper pressing plate 1 through positioning holes 201-1, so that for twoadjacent protection sheets 2, a right side 203-1 of a curved protectionsheet 203 always presses a left side 203-3 of a curved protection sheet203 of the adjacent protection sheet 2, the right side 203-1 of thecurved protection sheet 203 always is in an upper layer, and the leftside 203-3 of the curved protection sheet 203 is always in a lowerlayer, to thus form the circular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly21 by alternately stacking the protection sheets in this manner. Referto FIG. 3 to FIG. 3-5.

Positioning holes 3-1 of the corrugation sealing ring 3 are sleeved onthe positioning posts 1-1 of the upper pressing plate 1, and thecircular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 is disposed betweenthe corrugation sealing ring 3 and the upper pressing plate 1. Thepositioning seat 4 is provided with upper positioning holes 4-1 andlower positioning holes 4-2, the positioning posts 1-1 of the upperpressing plate 1 are embedded in the upper positioning holes 4-1 of thepositioning seat 4, and the protection sheet 2 and the corrugationsealing ring 3 are sequentially disposed between the upper pressingplate 1 and the positioning seat 4. The funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 isprovided with positioning holes 5-1, the lower pressing plate 6 isdisposed with positioning posts 6-1, the positioning posts 6-1 of thelower pressing plate 6 are embedded in lower positioning holes 4-2 ofthe positioning seat 4 through the positioning holes 5-1 of thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5, and the funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 isdisposed between the lower pressing plate 6 and the positioning seat 4.Refer to FIG. 4 to FIG. 4-5.

Because the circular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 isadopted, the end sealing assembly 20 not only ensures that thefunnel-shaped sealing ring 5 is not punctured by a surgical instrumentin a surgical process, but also reduces a moving resistance force, wellensuring a smoothness of a insertion and removal of the surgicalinstrument, and particularly, benefiting insertion and removal ofvarious special-shaped instruments.

Embodiment 3: A Trocar of the Present Invention

Refer to FIG. 5, in this embodiment, a trocar 29 includes the endsealing assembly 20 of Embodiment 2.

The trocar 29 includes a sheath 100 and a penetration rod 200. Thesheath 100 includes an end cover 101 and a sheath assembly 102. The endsealing assembly 20 is embedded between an upper case 101-1 and a lowercase 101-2 of the end cover 101.

Regardless of a structure of the penetration rod 200 and the sheathassembly 102, in this embodiment, a core of the trocar 29 lies in thatthe end sealing assembly 20 of the trocar 29 adopts the circularfunnel-shaped protection sheet assembly 21 formed by alternatelystacking the sealing ring protection sheets 2 of Embodiment 1.

The asymmetrical structural design of the curved protection sheet 203 ofthe sealing ring protection sheet 2 for a trocar not only ensures thatthe funnel-shaped sealing ring 5 is not punctured in a surgical process,but also reduces a moving resistance force of a surgical instrument,thereby well ensuring a moving smoothness of the surgical instrument,and particularly, benefiting insertion and removal of variousspecial-shaped instruments, so that the trocar of the present inventionhas a good clinical use value.

It should be noted that, the structures disclosed and described in thepresent invention may be replaced with other structures of the sameeffect, and meanwhile embodiments of the present invention describedherein are not the sole structure to implement the present invention.Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have beenintroduced and described in the specification, persons skilled in theart should know that these embodiments are merely described by way ofexample, and persons skilled in the art may make various changes,improvements, and replacements without departing from the presentinvention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present inventionshould be defined in accordance with the spirit and scope of theappended claims of the present invention.

While particular embodiments are described above, it will be understoodit is not intended to limit the invention to these particularembodiments. On the contrary, the invention includes alternatives,modifications and equivalents that are within the spirit and scope ofthe appended claims. Numerous specific details are set forth in order toprovide a thorough understanding of the subject matter presented herein.But it will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that thesubject matter may be practiced without these specific details. In otherinstances, well-known methods, procedures, components, and circuits havenot been described in detail so as not to unnecessarily obscure aspectsof the embodiments.

The terminology used in the description of the invention herein is forthe purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is notintended to be limiting of the invention. As used in the description ofthe invention and the appended claims, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and“the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless thecontext clearly indicates otherwise. It will also be understood that theterm “and/or” as used herein refers to and encompasses any and allpossible combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. Itwill be further understood that the terms “includes,” “including,”“comprises,” and/or “comprising,” when used in this specification,specify the presence of stated features, operations, elements, and/orcomponents, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or moreother features, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.

As used herein, the term “if” may be construed to mean “when” or “upon”or “in response to determining” or “in accordance with a determination”or “in response to detecting,” that a stated condition precedent istrue, depending on the context. Similarly, the phrase “if it isdetermined [that a stated condition precedent is true]” or “if [a statedcondition precedent is true]” or “when [a stated condition precedent istrue]” may be construed to mean “upon determining” or “in response todetermining” or “in accordance with a determination” or “upon detecting”or “in response to detecting” that the stated condition precedent istrue, depending on the context.

Although some of the various drawings illustrate a number of logicalstages in a particular order, stages that are not order dependent may bereordered and other stages may be combined or broken out. While somereordering or other groupings are specifically mentioned, others will beobvious to those of ordinary skill in the art and so do not present anexhaustive list of alternatives. Moreover, it should be recognized thatthe stages could be implemented in hardware, firmware, software or anycombination thereof.

The foregoing description, for purpose of explanation, has beendescribed with reference to specific embodiments. However, theillustrative discussions above are not intended to be exhaustive or tolimit the invention to the precise forms disclosed. Many modificationsand variations are possible in view of the above teachings. Theembodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain theprinciples of the invention and its practical applications, to therebyenable others skilled in the art to best utilize the invention andvarious embodiments with various modifications as are suited to theparticular use contemplated.

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 19. A sealing ring protection sheet for a trocarcomprising: a positioning skirt; a supporting piece; and a curvedsurface protection piece, wherein: A. the positioning skirt is asheet-like structure, and is provided with a positioning hole and aninner side of the positioning skirt is connected to an upper end of thesupporting piece; B. the support piece is a sheet-like structure, and anupper end thereof is connected to an inner side of the positioning skirtand a lower end thereof is connected to an upper end of the curvedsurface protection sheet; and C. the curved surface protection sheet isan asymmetrical sheet-like structure having a curved surface, furtherincluding a right oblique side, a bottom side, a left oblique side, anupper side, and a transition arc, and the right oblique side and theleft oblique side are on both sides of the bottom edge, the curvedsurface protection sheet is suspended on the support piece, an upperedge of the curved surface protection sheet is connected to a lower endof the support piece.
 20. The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocaraccording to claim 19, wherein: an included angle α between the curvedprotection sheet and the support piece is greater than or equal to 90°.21. The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according to claim19, wherein: an included angle β between the left bevel edge and thebottom edge is between 70° and 90°.
 22. The sealing ring protectionsheet for a trocar according to claim 19, wherein: the right bevel edgeand the left bevel edge are asymmetrically distributed along a centerline and its extension line of the positioning skirt.
 23. The sealingring protection sheet for a trocar according to claim 22, wherein: afurthest distance between the right bevel edge and the center line andits extension line of the positioning skirt is less than a furthestdistance between the left bevel edge and the center line and itsextension line of the positioning skirt.
 24. The sealing ring protectionsheet for a trocar according to claim 19, wherein: the curved protectionsheet used in the sealing ring protection sheet of the trocar isdisposed with an easily deformable region with a relatively weakdeformation strength and a protection region with a relatively strongdeformation strength, and a deformation resistance force of the easilydeformable region is less than a deformation resistance force of theprotection region.
 25. The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocaraccording to claim 24, wherein: the easily deformable region is disposedon a right side of the curved protection sheet of the sealing ringprotection sheet for a trocar, and the protection region is disposed ona left side of the curved protection sheet of the sealing ringprotection sheet.
 26. The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocaraccording to claim 25, wherein: a thickness of the easily deformableregion is less than a thickness of the protection region.
 27. Thesealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according to claim 19,wherein: a funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly is formed byalternately stacking four or more sealing ring protection sheets. 28.The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according to claim 27,wherein: the funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly is formed byalternately stacking eight sealing ring protection sheets at 45°. 29.The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according to claim 19,wherein: a curvature of a left side portion of the curved protectionsheet is different from that of a right side portion of the curvedprotection sheet.
 30. The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocaraccording to claim 29, wherein: the curvature of the left side of thecurved protection sheet is less than that of the right side of thecurved protection sheet.
 31. The sealing ring protection sheet for atrocar according to claim 19, wherein: the upper edge of the curvedprotection sheet comprises a right-side upper edge, a left-side upperedge; and the right-side upper edge is lower than the left-side upperedge.
 32. The sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according toclaim 19, wherein: the positioning skirt is perpendicular to the supportpiece.
 33. An end sealing assembly, wherein: the end sealing assemblycomprises the sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according toclaim
 19. 34. The end sealing assembly according to claim 33, wherein:the end sealing assembly comprises an upper pressing plate, a protectionsheet, a corrugation sealing ring, a positioning seat, a funnel-shapedsealing ring and a lower pressing plate; eight protection sheets aremounted on positioning posts of the upper pressing plate throughpositioning holes, so that for two adjacent protection sheets, a rightside of a curved protection sheet always presses a left side of a curvedprotection sheet of the adjacent protection sheet, the right side of thecurved protection sheet is always in an upper layer, and the left sideof the curved protection sheet is always in a lower layer, to thus forma circular funnel-shaped protection sheet assembly by alternatelystacking the protection sheets in this manner; positioning holes of thecorrugation sealing ring are sleeved on the positioning posts of theupper pressing plate, and the circular funnel-shaped protection sheetassembly is disposed between the corrugation sealing ring and the upperpressing plate; the positioning seat is provided with upper positioningholes and lower positioning holes, the positioning posts of the upperpressing plate are embedded in the upper positioning holes of thepositioning seat, and the protection sheets and the corrugation sealingring are sequentially disposed between the upper pressing plate and thepositioning seat; and the funnel-shaped sealing ring is provided withpositioning holes, the lower pressing plate is provided with positioningposts, the positioning posts of the lower pressing plate are embedded inthe lower positioning holes of the positioning seat through thepositioning holes of the funnel-shaped sealing ring, and thefunnel-shaped sealing ring is disposed between the lower pressing plateand the positioning seat.
 35. A trocar, wherein: the trocar comprisesthe sealing ring protection sheet for a trocar according to claim 19.36. The trocar according to claim 35, wherein: the trocar comprises theend sealing assembly according to claim 33.